In 2014, the island of Ahamb in Vanuatu became the scene of a startling Christian revival movement led by thirty children with ‘spiritual vision.’ However, it ended dramatically…
Migration is typically seen as a transnational phenomenon, but it happens within borders, too. Oaxaca in Motion: An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration (U Texas Press, 2022), documents…
Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname (U Toronto Press, 2021) explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in…
Great discussion of iron smelting for coins and guns by Amitabha Ghosh in Aniruddha Ray (ed) “Tipu Sultan and his Age” . Asiatic Society 2002, Park Street. Much…
La fotografía corresponde al Malecón de Guayaquil y está tomada de ecuadorunplugged.com/photoblo] Fragmento de “Urbanismo y urbanidad. Guayaquil, Barcelona y elfuturo de las ciudades”, ponencia en…
Hi all,I’m looking forward to the weekend like anybody else & leave you with a fresh #globaldev review that features articles that are as absurd, shocking, unsurprising &…
Menneskets språkevne er vår mest unikt menneskelige egenskap. Alle språk er uttrykk for det å være menneske i verden, og bor i akkurat samme slags hjerne. Derfor har…
Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine (U Toronto Press, 2022) explores the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests – a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine –…
Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown’s new book focuses upon the ways in which ethnic difference…
Show Notes Building a New Labor Market for Global Design Talent with Fredrik Thomassen More and more businesses are switching to remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But…
The AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab transpires as a collaborative space for emerging scholars, artists, scientists, and practitioners of all kinds working in the Global South with…
Chicago’s Field Museum recently unveiled their new Native North America Hall, redesigned with input from Native collaborators. But does it go far enough to address past harms? ✽…
Inna Perheentupa’s book Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia: An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources (Policy Press, 2022) is a nuanced and compelling analysis of grassroots feminist activism in Russia in the…
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won over the years. Indeed, as noted below, Dr.…
Heute mittag hallte ein entsetzes vierstimmiges “No” durch den Besprechungsraum. Eine indische Kollegin hatte irgendwas zu Brot gefragt, was zu diesem entsetzen, überzeugten, gemeinsamen Ausruf v…
Heute mittag hallte ein entsetzes vierstimmiges “No” durch den Besprechungsraum. Eine indische Kollegin hatte irgendwas zu Brot gefragt, was zu diesem entsetzen, überzeugten, gemeinsamen Ausruf v…
Replik von Dr. Anne-Kathrin Will (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Zum Abschluss der RfM-Debatte 2022 möchte ich auf die Kommentare zu meinem Initialbeitrag „Anstelle des Migrationshintergrundes: Ein…
Anthropological Lives: An Introduction to the Profession of Anthropology (Rutgers UP, 2020) introduces readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. It focuses on the work…
Margret Grebowicz’s Rescue Me: On Dogs and Their Humans (U Minnesota Press, 2022) is a little book about the oldest relationship we humans have cultivated with another large animal—in something…
Today I talked to Ted Conover, author of Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge (Knopf, 2022) In May 2017, Conover went to Colorado to explore firsthand a rural way of…
Safe Spaces, also Räume, die Marginalisierten Sicherheit verschaffen sollen, werden heiß diskutiert. Und tatsächlich sollte dieses Konzept beunruhigen, aber aus anderen Gründen als vielfach angenommen…
The report on this 1965 anti-war protest is marginally better than most current press release churnalism, of course it favours the Police and the future PM McMahon (who…
Last Friday I was interviewed by The Ubyssey for a profile piece on faculty candidates for the current board of governors’ election. This is a slightly cleaned up…
Ich habe zwei meiner Salwar-Kamiz (Hose-Hemd) mit nach Indien genommen. Bisher hatte ich sie noch nie an. Vor allem weil mir Taschen fehlen. Eines hat gar keine, das…